COMPETITION FOR SHOPPING BUDDY

Stop & Shop's Shopping Buddy, a laptop-style tablet that attaches to the front of a shopping cart, now has competition.That competition comes in the form of the U-Scan Shopper, another cart-mounted display unit introduced in February by Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, Frisco, Texas, at the Food Marketing Institute's Marketechnics show in Washington. Fujitsu, which is partnering with Klever Marketing,

Stop & Shop's Shopping Buddy, a laptop-style tablet that attaches to the front of a shopping cart, now has competition.

That competition comes in the form of the U-Scan Shopper, another cart-mounted display unit introduced in February by Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, Frisco, Texas, at the Food Marketing Institute's Marketechnics show in Washington. Fujitsu, which is partnering with Klever Marketing, Salt Lake City, in marketing the system, expects to run a beta test this summer a